Submitted 2 days ago by EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren’t the focus.
It’s a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.
The marketing mixes metaphors, talking about gardening, growing, curating… all part of sustainable process that includes plants dying.
It also uses words like forever and permanent.
Having content live forever is at odds with metaphors of the natural world, where things naturally die.
Well permaculture is a thing in gardening ^^
I mean, it’s not “forever” as in “until the end of all things”, but as much set and forget as I would like in a knowledgebase (and in a garden).
I think the metaphors refer to different aspects of the project. The gardening refers to a more deliberate, small scale, cultivated experience tailed to your community, which is opposed to commercial factory farms that produce a monoculture on a massive scale.
The permanence refers to the fact that you own and control the data, so you are in control of its lifecycle, not a third party that could kill it at their discretion.
I find it strange that they themselves have a Discord link in the footer.
Some kind of weird WebGL error on their site I’ve never seen before.
Doesn’t load for me.
LibreWolf doesn’t seem to be offering to activate canvas.
Oh well.
Same for me, why does a forum software need webgl?
You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It’s not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.
Works fine in Firefox on Android
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).
Exactly same error for me. I’m glad there are such indicators so I don’t have to waste my time on such a crappy overcomplicated design.
Same for me in IronFox.
Also on cromite. Both disable webgl by default, iirc.
Not like a forum has a reasonable use case that requires webgl, tho.
Me too
Whatever happened to vBulletin? That was peak forum software. Simple to use and no bloated tracking shit.
All the car community forums are operated by Fora at this point, and they’re trying to push some bullshit AI assistant called “ForaFrank”. I blocked it on every car forum I’m a part of, and have encouraged others to do the same.
Oh great more cool FOSS projects to bookmark
Will have to look into this. Been saying for a while that a wiki-forum combo would make sense, since a forum slowly becomes a repository of knowledge, if not generally then at least for its members, and a less linear and more browsable way to catalog that knowledge would make sense. You can set up a separate wiki server but then you have two things to manage and moderate.
Love this… Will take a spin for my OpenAstra
Looks cool. Is it already supported by NixOS?
This looks … great.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It mentions many AI features. Is this vibe-coded?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
From what I can tell the author uses AI assistance in creating API endpoints and some front end styling.
littleomid@feddit.org 2 days ago
Looks like the pictures are also AI generated?